- Hardcover: 216 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (30 Nov 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1403918961
- ISBN-13: 978-1403918963
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,046,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'I highly recommend this anthology, which is an invaluable source of original documents, some of them available in English for the first time. The selections show how forerunners to contemporary guaranteed income schemes raised and addressed crucial issues as well as arguments for and against such schemes.' - Richard K. Caputo, Basic Income Studies
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The Origins of Universal Grants collects significant historical sources on basic capital and basic income, some of which are translated into English for the first time, making them accessible to a wider academic and policy- making audience. They enhance the contemporary revival of interest about the merits and drawbacks of schemes for universal grants. The chosen extracts come from texts originally published in America, Belgium, England and France, and span the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. They reveal the wide geographical and temporal extent of such schemes. The editors' Introduction places the different proposals in context, and draws parallels between present and past debates.
The extracts are drawn from writings on basic capital by Paine, Blatchly, Skidmore, Brownson, Voituron, De Keyser and De Potter, and on basic income by Spence, Fourier, Davenport and Carlile, Charlier, Milner and Milner, Pickard, Hattersley, Cole and Rhys-Williams.
The extracts are drawn from writings on basic capital by Paine, Blatchly, Skidmore, Brownson, Voituron, De Keyser and De Potter, and on basic income by Spence, Fourier, Davenport and Carlile, Charlier, Milner and Milner, Pickard, Hattersley, Cole and Rhys-Williams.
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Very informative book with many articles which document the historical origins of the Basic Income/Basic Capital debate. Incredibly useful for contrasting the theoretical justifications.
The book contains many obscure works which one would never discover by oneself, and brings out the most important elements of their arguements.
Should become an extremely popular anthology amongst political theorists and those interested in the historical evolution of policy.
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